Plasma Mobile will have its own "Usability & Productivity" section on the KDE blog

Plasma Mobile

We discovered some time ago that KDE was publishing some very interesting blog posts every week. It was about information about KDE Usability & Prodictivity, an initiative that collected ideas and the work of designers and developers to improve everything related to KDE software. Although the initiative has now come to an end, Nate Graham continues to publish everything that is yet to come to the KDE world. On the other hand, now they are going to do something very similar, but talking about Plasma Mobile.

Unlike KDE Usability & Productivity and now "this week in KDE" (we don't know if they will continue with that name), the news about the mobile version of the KDE graphical environment is not signed by one person, but by the Plasma Mobile team. What they do the same is publish what they are working on and what will reach mobile phones that use the Plasma graphical environmentsuch as a revamped image in the app launcher and some shell interactions, including adding and removing widgets or changing the desktop background.

Plasma Mobile prepares many novelties

Information in Plasma Mobile

Although in the first week of this initiative they have talked about many things, as a Kubuntu / Plasma user the previous screenshot caught my attention: as you can see, it shows that the simulation phone is using plasma 5.17.80, which is probably an alpha version of Plasma 5.18 that they will launch in February. You are also using Frameworks 5.63 and the most up-to-date stable version for the desktop is v5.62.

In the entry, they have also published a couple of videos showing how Plasma works, more specifically on the PinePhone and the freem5. What we see is very interesting, although it is true that they still have work ahead. In this work, I believe that development or agreements with popular applications should enter, since in countries like Spain applications such as WhatsApp are used that are only available in a few mobile operating systems.

As for the follow-up that we will do on this initiative, here we are not going to publish all the news as in the desktop version, but we will publish articles about the interesting functions that we think are convenient. You can read the first episode of this series from this link.

Plasma Mobile
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